Reading postal address using cout

I have a text file addresses.txt which contains a postal address as a single record
i.e

Quote:

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24 Church Street McClerance Close California 5084 .. record 1
.................................................. ................................. record 2

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24 Church street is to be read to variable line1
McClerance Close is to be read to variable line2
California is to be read to variable city
5084 is to be read to variable zip

How do i read this at once to all these variables?

You should put ,'s in the address and read up to them as substrings. So you'd read between the square brackets then.

Quote:

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[24 Church Street], [McClerance Close], [California], [5084]

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So you could then use getline and use ',' as a deliminator rather than '\n'

Quote:

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Originally Posted by twomers

You should put ,'s in the address and read up to them as substrings. So you'd read between the square brackets then.So you could then use getline and use ',' as a deliminator rather than '\n'

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I used commas, and here's how am reading them, but i get a runtime exception on the first getline

Code:

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std::istream& operator>>(std::istream& in, Address& address)
{
        char *fline="";
        char *sline="";
        char *tline="";
        char *cty="";
        char *cde="";
       
        in.getline(fline, 100, ','); /* This throws an exception */
        in.getline(sline, 100, ',');
        in.getline(tline, 100, ',');
        in.getline(cty, 100, ',');
        in.getline(cde, 5);

        std::string firstln(fline), secondln(sline), thirdln(tline), city(cty), code(cde);
        address.setAddress(firstln, secondln, thirdln, city, code);

        /*
        in >> fline;
        in >> sline;
        in >> tline;
        in >> city;       
        in >> cde;
        */

        return in;
}

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http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/Common...kes_and_errors
Read especially the two first topics.
Use std::string and std::getline.

You also seem to have been poisoned by some members or some tutorials...
C++ programmers should use T* and not T *! ;)

fline, sline tline .. are string literals that cannot be modified.
Why don't you use the std::string version of getline ?
Kurt